TaRL Blog
Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) news and insights from around the world.
How Co-Impact Collaborates for Change
Read Barron's Penta article about Co-Impact's collaborative approach to systems change, and their support to TaRL Africa, featuring Rukmini Banerji (Pratham and TaRL Africa) and Laura Poswell (J-PAL Africa and TaRL Africa).
Sharing TaRL Lessons Across Continents: Catch Up team visit to India
From 6 to 11 May, members of the Catch Up team from Zambia visited India to meet Pratham staff, see TaRL classes in action, and meet school and government staff working on TaRL programmes. The Catch Up team reflects on the visit.
Watch: “How to Change the World” – Freethink
Watch Freethink's video, featuring Co-Impact CEO, Olivia Leland. She talks about how to address some of the world's most complex problems at scale, using TaRL Africa as an example.
What Have we Learned About the Learning Crisis? – Brookings
Read Michelle Kaffenberger's (Research Fellow, RISE) post on the Brookings blog discussing the depth of the learning crisis.
TaRL Community Mathematics Training
Elizabeth Ndyanabangi who worked closely on the Roots to Rise intervention in Uganda , reflects on a TaRL Mathematics training organized by the People’s Action for Learning Network (PAL Network), which took place in Bungoma, Kenya. TaRL Mathematics Training in...
TaRL Borno Pilot Wraps Up
The Borno State Government with support from the Department for International Development (DFID) through UNICEF, Plan International, and TaRL Africa recently concluded a small Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) pilot reaching over 9000 children in twelve schools. The...
Join the TaRL Africa Team
TaRL Africa: Who we are The Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) Africa team was launched in January as a joint initiative of Pratham and J-PAL. We collaborate with governments and partners across Africa to address the learning crisis in primary schools through TaRL, an...
New Teaching at the Right Level Video
Watch the video about Pratham's Teaching at the Right Level approach, featuring footage from the Zambian Ministry of General Education's Catch Up programme.
Follow TaRL Africa on Twitter!
The Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) Africa team has recently launched their own Twitter account. Click here for TaRL_Africa news and updates!
From Big Data to Big Impact – Dr. Rukmini Banerji
Watch Rukmini Banerji's (CEO, Pratham) presentation about how Pratham has used data to understand and improve learning.
Release: J-PAL and Pratham awarded philanthropic funding toward education systems change
On January 15, Co-Impact, a global philanthropic collaborative for systems change, announced a commitment of…
It’s hard to design good policies. This simple idea can help governments do it.
Read Meagan Neal’s post on Vox, about how to improve government policy, using the Zambian government’s implementation of Catch Up in Zambia…
Pratham: The Grameen Bank of Education in the Developing World
Read Nany Birdsall’s post about Pratham’s TaRL approach. “I was in Delhi last week and saw Pratham—India’s largest non-governmental…
Recruiting Youth Volunteers in Africa: Lessons from Evidence Action
Read Evidence Action’s blogpost reflecting on the TaRL Conference and sharing lessons on recruiting and retaining youth volunteers…
Measuring Progress Is Key to Achieving Universal Education
“Getting to the heart of the learning crisis requires better data.”Education represents a chance at a better life and better opportunities. Read the post on Global Citizen…
Hands-on and playful learning: this is Zambia’s education revolution
Read Sabina Vigani’s reflection on the Zambia field visits. The field visits took place from 24-25 September…
Meera’s Story: Why It’s Crucial to Find Solutions to the Global Learning Crisis
Read Dr. Rukmini Banerji’s post on Global Citizen, which highlights the need to build early foundations for a successful education…
Bringing together an inspired and motivated community for our Teaching at the Right Level Conference
To facilitate learning across these different contexts, Pratham and J-PAL Africa hosted a TaRL Conference from 26-27 September in Johannesburg…
How do you scale spirit?
Read a post from the Brookings blog, which discusses ways to scale the “spirit of TaRL”…
Teaching at the Right Level Website Launch
J-PAL Africa and Pratham have launched a new Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) website in response to growing demand from governments, schools, and NGOs for details on TaRL methodology and implementation. In recent years, education stakeholders have become...
Applying the generalizability framework: Adopting Teaching at the Right Level in Zambia
Cross–posted from the J-PAL blog. How can governments learn from evidence generated from randomized evaluations? Over the last three years, J-PAL Africa has supported the Zambian Ministry of General Education to pilot and scale up…
Adapting a new educational approach to francophone West Africa
Cross posted from the J-PAL blog. In francophone West Africa, despite progress made in primary school enrollment rates, students’ learning levels remain low throughout primary school. For example, in Côte d’Ivoire, more than half of students did not reach a...
Teaching at the Right Level: Inside the classroom
Cross-posted from the J-PAL blog. The application of the Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) approach in Zambia, through the Ministry of General Education’s Catch Up program…
Zambia to scale Teaching at the Right Level programme to 1,800 schools
Cross-posted from the J-PAL blog. Building on over a decade of rigorous research around the world and two years of iterative learning in Zambia…
From India to Zambia: A Learning Journey
Cross-posted from the J-PAL blog. How can policymakers integrate lessons from innovations proven to be effective in another context? Learning journeys can play a key role in understanding the implementation and context details which drove a program’s impact and might...
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